RFC: branching for GDB 7.11 soon? (possibly Wed)

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

Hello everyone,

According to the GDB 7.11 release cycle wiki page
(https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_7.11_Release),

there no longer any items that are explicitly marked as being
blocking for branching.  We do have a few "maybe"-s. There are also
3 PRs filed with a target-milestone of GDB 7.11. From experience,
if we want them to make a given release, they need to have a champion.

Currently unassigned, we have:

PR19474 "break LINE_NUM" set breakpoint on file other than current source file
(suggest Keith?)

PR19503 internal-error: linux_nat_resume: Assertion `lp != NULL' failed.
(Pedro seems to be on it already)

In addition, we have the following PR, which Keith already sent
a patch:
PR19506 Regression with gdb.Breakpoint("*<addr>")

At the moment, I would be hesitant to branch before we first
analyze what would be required to fix PR19474 ("break LINE_NUM").
But if we're confident that it can be fairly safely fixed on
the branch, I don't see any other issue blocking for branching,
which I would then propose to be doing sometime early Wed.

Sergio - would you be able to give us a rough description of how
good the results are in the buildbots? Anything we should be
aware of for this release? (Thanks!)

Thoughts?

-- 
Joel